Another game of Nintendo Switch is Shutting down soon. The developer of this notable game has announced that the game will not be available on the platform soon. Paladins: Champions of the Realm is the game that will become unplayable on the platform. The game was released in 2018 on Nintendo Switch.
Paladins: Champions of the Realm was the first game of Hi-Rez Studios’ released on the console. In 2015, it was released as a hero shooter game, and in 2016 it was released as a closed beta. It was not released on famous consoles like PlayStation 4 and Xbox One until May 2018. The game was compared to Overwatch due to its release and announcement timings.
Both Overwatch and Paladins: Champions of the Realm have different heroic characters. Paladins has created a huge fanbase and therefore it is being regarded as the best game in the segment. The developers of the game have announced the news on their official website and Twitter.
The game will receive an update in June end named Midnight Masquerade soon after which it is going to shut down. According to the developers, the Switch version’s performance issues prevented the game from reaching the standards. Additionally, the platform-specific issues also took a lot of time for the team for getting resolved.
Paladins and its’ DLCs can no longer be downloaded from Switch eShop and therefore developer Hi-Rez is encouraging the players to link their progress to the Hi-Rez accounts so that it does not get lost. As Another game of Nintendo Switch is Shutting down soon, the Hi-Rez game Rogue Company will also shut down this year only.
Midnight Masquerade will be the final major update Nintendo Switch players will receive for Paladins.
For more information, please read this announcement: https://t.co/iLPQgIM7UL pic.twitter.com/hGQgR1Mi6k
— Paladins: The Game (@PaladinsGame) April 19, 2023
The fans are not very happy with the announcement and they have shown their disappointment on Twitter. Paladins do not allow for cross-progression on PlayStation 4 which will limit the ability to carry forward the progress of the players.
Fall Guys and Fortnite are among the games that offer proper support for cross-progression on Nintendo Switch. These games also face performance issues as they run at lower framerates. In comparison to other consoles, Switch does not have much power, and therefore optimization problems in the games have become very common.
The optimization issues are not exclusive to multiplayer games because the Switch version of Skyrim: Anniversary Edition also suffered the same issues. There is no news of modern games becoming graphically intensive or that the Switch model is also not becoming powerful. Due to this, there are chances that the games will either be delisted from the console or they will not be ported.
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